Spam accounts for 87.7% of all e-mail in 2009

Spam accounts for 87.7% of all e-mail in 2009 More Resilient Botnets to blame

#1 Andrew

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 02:00 PM

According to a report by MessageLabs(PDF), 87.7% of all e-mails sent in 2009 were spam. This is despite several high-profile takedowns of prolific spam-spewing ISP's in late 2008 and in August of this year.

The report blames this on personal computers which have been compromised by malicious software, thus becoming a part of a "botnet" used to send spam.

These "zombified" computers account for 83.4% of all 107 billion spam messages sent each day. The cutwail botnet alone sent 8.5 trillion messages between April and November.

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Posted 09 December 2009 - 05:26 AM

107 Billion a day.. sheesh.

What's the point of spam anyway, what is it to the people that do it?

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Posted 10 December 2009 - 05:49 AM

XuzI, on Dec 9 2009, 09:26 PM, said:

107 Billion a day.. sheesh.

What's the point of spam anyway, what is it to the people that do it?

They make money passing the harvested Email addresses on to all types of companies and individuals; maybe just to advertise, equally to cause a Malicious intrusion to your Computer to collect identity information which can also be sold, or used maliciously.
Amazing amount of Bandwidth, there must be some large sums of money involved . Couple spam with porn and you have virtually the entire Internet, amazingly disgusting situation.

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Posted 10 December 2009 - 07:35 PM

BP_Super_Thanks, on Dec 10 2009, 02:49 AM, said:

XuzI, on Dec 9 2009, 09:26 PM, said:

107 Billion a day.. sheesh.

What's the point of spam anyway, what is it to the people that do it?

Makes sense, but still bad and so are the people that do it... sad times....

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Posted 11 December 2009 - 08:11 AM

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Makes sense, but still bad and so are the people that do it... sad times....

I'm not sure it "makes sense'. The bandwidth/content could be used in a much more beneficial way . :thumbsup:

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